photography

Daniel Epstein is a long time P&G leader, about to retire from his position as marketing director for a move to Toronto. During his many business travels, he has stayed for extra days to photograph people and discuss the role of faith in their lives. This project, called Portraits in Faith, is now an extensive, beautifully moving website at portraitsinfaith.org. He joins Ron Esposito to discuss the genesis of this project and what future plans he has for the site and a future documentary.

Mary McCartney is the daughter of music royalty – her parents are Sir Paul and the late Linda McCartney – and she has followed in her father’s vegetarian footsteps. She has just published Food: Vegetarian Home Cooking, and as our Barbara Gray learns, it’s full of great recipes and beautiful photography.

Poetry takes on a distinctly feline voice with selections such as “Kneel Before Me,” “Who Is That On Your Lap,” and “Some Of My Best Friends Are Dogs.” This collection of cat verse (and accompanying photos), brought to us by Mark Perzel’s guest, Francesco Marciuliano (author of the internationally syndicated comic strip Sally Forth), is aptly titled I Could Pee on This: And Other Poems by Cats.

Photographic artist Elena Dorfman currently has an exhibit of her large-scale images at the Phyllis Weston Galleryon Madison Road. She joins our Judith Turner-Yamamoto to talk about the two years it took to capture all the images from rock quarries around the Midwest that make up her Empire Falling exhibit.

While browsing through Reddit today, I stumbled across some gorgeous photographs of Cincinnati done by a photographer named Michael Contreras. I contacted him and, with his permission, I am sharing these with you. More photos are available here.

Judith Turner-Yamamoto has a review of a new book of photography from the Ohio University Press.Face to Face: The Photography of Lloyd E. Moore features works by the longtime Lawrence County, Ohio attorney. Lawrence County, along the Ohio River in southeast Ohio, sits at the start of the Appalachian Mountains, and in the mid-1970’s, Lloyd Moore began photographing his clients who came from all walks of life and backgrounds.

Jay Schadler has been a reporter for ABC News for many years now, but he started his early broadcasting career in Oxford at WMUB. He speaks by phone with Lee Hay talking about his days as news director at WMUB, his favorite travel experiences, his passion for photography and how he balances his TV works with running a gallery in New Hampshire.